Arctic front doesn't scare off 2015 Rhythm Ropers Polar Bear Swimmers
What's a cold Arctic air front to enthusiastic Polar Bear Swimmers? Nothing! More than 75 brave, hardy, souls flocked to Nelson’s Lakeside Park beach to take the plunge into Kootenay Lake at the 2015 Rhythm Ropers Polar Bear Swim Thursday at High Noon. And it didn’t matter the age, swimmers young and old made the sprint, in...
Coastal-like snowfall causes vehicles to play bumper cars on Cedar Street in Nelson
The first major snowfall in weeks caught some drivers in the City of Nelson off guard as several accidents were reported. One major bottleneck proved to be the 300 Block of Cedar Street when snow combined with a warming temperature turned the street into a sheet of ice causing vehicles to bounce off of each other around 4...
Environment Canada issues weather alert for West Kootenay/Boundary
Environment Canada issued a special weather warning Saturday for most of the province, including the West Kootenay/Boundary regions. The statement said residents should expect cold Arctic air spreading across the interior Sunday. "A strong ridge of high pressure from Yukon will advance towards the British Columbia Interior ...
Avalanche warning
A MESSAGE FROM AVALANCHE CANADA Special Public Avalanche Warning for Most Inland Regions of BC’s Backcountry: Dec 26 – Dec 30 Recreational users urged to exercise caution and restraint. December 25, 2014, Revelstoke, BC: Avalanche Canada is issuing a special public avalanche warning for the North Rockies, Cariboos, North Columbia, South Columbia, Kootenay-Boundary, […]
Provincial Court Judge agrees charges can proceed in Lemon Creek fuel spill case
Slocan Valley resident Marilyn Burgoon is pleased with a ruling by Judge Mayland McKimm that allows the BC Government and Executive Flight Centre Fuel Services Ltd. to face charges in relation to the Lemon Creek fuel spill. In a media release, Burgoon said, “This is a very important victory for democracy.” Burgoon took up ...
BC Coroner identifies Slocan Park residents killed in snowmobile accident near Nakusp
The BC Coroners Service has confirmed the identity of a man and woman who died after a snowmobile incident near Nakusp on Sunday (December 14) as Calvin Leo White, aged 27, from Slocan Park, and Elise Lindberg Hansen, aged 29, from Winlaw. White and Hansen were riding a long-track snowmobile on an unplowed forestry road near...
The Year-End Blues
“What rough beast … slouches toward Bethlehem to be born?” -- W.B. Yeats, The Second Coming “Americans still heralded the Enlightenment’s entry into history precisely because they’d all been uprooted from their several soils and ancestries and plunged together into one vortex, whirling irresistible in a space otherwise quite...
Nelson's Ross Steed turns to fundraising to help in his fight against chronic Lyme disease
The family of a 55-year-old Nelson man has taken to a fundraising website to raise money to help in the fight against chronic Lyme disease. For the past five years, Ross Steed has endured a level of pain and discomfort on a day-to-day basis that is beyond what most people could ever imagine. However, chronic Lyme disease is...
Fatal crash leads to charges against local woman
On November 30, 2013, at approximately 9:02 p.m., Trail RCMP were dispatched to a single vehicle motor vehicle crash involving an automobile on Hwy 3B just south of Fruitvale. Investigation has revealed that the vehicle was driven by a Linda Enoksen, 57 years old, of the Genelle area with three male passengers when the vehicle...
Student Union chair 'applauds' decision by Selkirk to continue offering tuition-free adult basic education
The Executive chair of the Selkirk College Students’ Union Local 4 Matthew Jameson is pleased with the recent decision by the college not to follow through with the recent provincial government decision to charge tuition fees for all adult upgrading courses, including ESL (English as a Secondary Language). Jameson “applauds”...
